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Did former CDC director offer a ham sandwich theory of COVID-19? Maybe. Maybe not. - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

In clips CNN aired from an upcoming special this Sunday (which Gupta dubbed an “autopsy” of the pandemic), Redfield dismissed the thebulletin.org/2021/03/did-fo…

possibility that the virus could have evolved sufficiently on its own to have “somehow jumped” quickly from bats to humans. But some biologists and biosecurity experts have also argued that dismissal of the lab leak theory is premature, and that investigations led by the

When the man, Amirouche Hammar, a 42-year-old fishmonger, visited a hospital north of Paris on December 27, he suffered from chest pains and had difficulty breathing. Doctors diagnosed him with viral pneumonia and treated him with antibiotics. “We told ourselves, ‘It’s a virus

that we haven’t discovered,’ but we stopped there,” Yves Cohen, one of Hammers’ doctors who works at Avicenne and Jean Verdier hospitals, told BFM-TV, according to the Associated Press.

In April 2015, Hillary Clinton engaged Elias as attorney of record for her 2016 presidential campaign.[9] According to The Washington Post, in April 2016, Elias hired Fusion GPS on behalf of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign to create the research that

resulted in the Steele dossier.[15] On October 24, 2017, Perkins Coie released Fusion GPS from its client confidentiality obligation.

In January 2019, Elias became general counsel of the Kamala Harris 2020 presidential campaign.[18]
Ahead of the 2020 election and amid the coronavirus pandemic, Elias filed dozens of lawsuits to expand voter access.

Frontier Services Group (FSG) is a Chinese Africa-focused security, aviation, and logistics company founded and led by Erik Prince, the former head of Blackwater Worldwide. Prince has described FSG's main corporate mission as helping Chinese businesses to work safely in Africa.

The company operates logistical projects for shipping routes in Africa, and also conducts high-risk evacuations from conflict zones. FSG's area of service has since expanded to the Belt and Road areas of Africa, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. It also works with the Chinese

paramilitary Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Prince commissioned the company to modify Thrush 510G crop-dusters with surveillance equipment, machine guns, armor, and other weapons, including custom pylons that could mount either NATO or Russian ballistics.

The men, it turns out, are well-known figures in Ukraine’s far-right scene, former soldiers for the ultranationalist Azov Battalion who fought Russian-backed separatists in the east. While they say they’re just tourists, their presence in Hong Kong has sparked concerns that they

may be there to glean lessons from this city’s protest movement to push their ideology back home. In March 2015 Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced that the Azov Regiment would be among the first units to be trained by United States Army troops in their Operation Fearless

Guardian training mission. "The story was that the DIA [US military intelligence] sent me to Moscow to pick up a flash drive with the names and photos of students from the border guard school," Mr Whelan says, arguing that such a low-tech mission was "illogical" in the internet

age.
He had supposedly paid for the secret data by wire transfer four months earlier, though Mr Whelan says that cash was a loan so his friend could buy his wife a new phone. The same year, senior Moran Security Group managers were involved in setting up the Hong Kong-based[38]

Slavonic Corps, which headhunted contractors to "protect oil fields and pipelines" in Syria.[1] Utkin was in Syria as part of the Slavonic Corps and survived its disastrous mission.[36] Subsequently, Russia's Federal Security Service arrested some members of the Slavonic Corps

for illegal mercenary activity It has been reported that Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, sometimes called “Putin’s chef”, because of his catering businesses that hosted dinners which Vladimir Putin attended with foreign dignitaries, has links with Wagner and Dmitry Utkin

personally. The businessman has been said to be the funder and actual owner of the Wagner Group.
Prigozhin, who was sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury in December 2016 for Russia's involvement in the Ukraine conflict, denied any communication with Wagner

Early in Rohrabacher's congressional career in 1990 or 1991, KGB agent and deputy mayor of Saint Petersburg Vladimir Putin and two other Russians entered Rohrabacher's congressional office in Washington D.C. who subsequently became close friends according to Rohrabacher during a

2013 interview with KPCC.[57]
Rohrabacher called the Russian banker Aleksandr Torshin, a Putin ally, "sort of the conservatives' favorite Russian". Rohrabacher's interest in Afghanistan extends back at least to the late 1980s, before his time in office, when he entered the

country in the company of mujahedin fighters who were fighting Soviet occupation forces. With his friend Oliver North's fundraising help, Rohrabacher won the Republican primary with a plurality of 35%.[

In March 2018, CNN reported that Erik Prince, a former intern of Rohrabacher while he was freshman congressman in 1990 and very close ally of Rohrabacher, hosted a fundraiser at Prince's Virginia with expected attendees including Oliver North on March 18, 2018.